Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

   Dear Friends   In further advancing our Global Mutirão against climate change, the Brazilian incoming Presidency of the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) presents its eighth letter to the international community, this time dedicated to the vital theme of climate adaptation . In this letter, I invite Parties and stakeholders to consider adaptation through new lenses: as the  next step in human evolution . As the age of warnings gives way to the age of consequences, humanity confronts a profound truth: climate adaptation is no longer a choice that follows mitigation; it is the first half of our survival. At each turning point in our evolution, our species has earned its place on this planet by adapting – learning, innovating and transforming the conditions of life itself. Adaptation has demanded the courage...

This is a copy of the third letter from the Brazilian Presdiency  Dear friends, Advancing the global effort against climate change, the Brazilian Presidency of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) presents its third letter to the international community, focused on preparations for the 62nd period of sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI). The meetings will take place in Bonn, from June 16 to 26, 2025. Listening carefully to the views and perspectives of delegates, Parties and other stakeholders, the COP30 Presidency will also address the negotiations that will take place at COP30 later in the year. In subsequent communications, I will also present plans for the Action Agenda and the Leaders’ Summit. In a context where climate urgency intersects with growing geopolitical and socio-economic challenges, the COP30...

This is Episode 1 of our new series based on From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda: Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future by FelixDodds , Jorge Laguna-Celis, and Liz Thompson .   Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit", the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.  Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact in the future, particularly in the UN development agenda beyond 2015.  The book throws light on the changing nature of multilateralism and questions frequent assumptions on how policy is defined within t...